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teriorly but without any other foveal groove; only an indefinite ridge 
separating the seutellum from the rest of the mesonotum; abdomen 
rather swollen, the second segment covering about one-half the whole 
abdomen; wings very short, about 0.47 of the body in length, with no 
more than traces of veins, chiefly back of the basalis; the hind wings 
but mere scales; the insects 1.8 to 2.0 mm. in length. Figures 356, 393. 
GALL. — Typical for the species, averaging small; on the leaves, 
often in small clusters, on Quercus stellata and its varieties, probably 
including the related Q. Chapmani and Q. Margaretta. 
RANGE. — Florida: Jacksonville (Ashmead; types). Greencove 
Springs, Ocala, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, and Daytona (galls, acc. 
Weld 1926). 
Probably restricted to Q. stellata and its varieties in the South- 
east, perhaps to Florida and adjacent parts of Georgia. Figure 51. 
TYPES. — 8 females and galls. Holotype and two topotypes in the 
U.S. National Museum; 4 adults in the Mayr collection (at Vienna?) ; 
galls in the Philadelphia Academy. From Jacksonville, Florida; bred 
in February; “Q. parvifolia” (= Q. stellata or Q. Chapmani var.) ; Ash- 
mead collector. 
The present re-descriptions are made from the types at the U.S. 
National Museum. 
We have no insects of this variety except those of Ashmead’s 
type collection. These adults were bred in February. His 
host record, Q. parvifolia , is ordinarily taken to mean Q. Chap- 
man i, an oak so closely related to Q. stellata that there is, as 
far as I know, no distinction in the cynipid faunas of the two. 
The galls of variety mellea cannot be separated from those 
of Carolina. All of the insects thus far bred from Coastal 
Plain material, from the Carolinas and north, have proved 
to be the long- winged, rufous and black variety Carolina , and 
Beutenmiiller’s record of mellea in New Jersey, apparently 
based on galls alone, is probably a mis-determination. His 
published figures of mellea galls appear to have been based on 
this New Jersey material. 
The relationships of the short-winged mellea and the long- 
winged varieties here treated as belonging to the same species, 
and the position of mellea in our present subgenus, are dis- 
cussed in the general treatment of Acraspis and in the intro- 
duction to our present species. In southern Georgia and Mis- 
sissippi there is another short-winged variety, bifurca, which 
resembles mellea in many respects, altho it has a wing vena- 
tion of such a distinctly different type that we must consider 
mellea and bifurca independent mutations from the long- 
winged stock of the species. 
